CVE-2008-0583: Skype Technologies Skype

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-zone scripting vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web control in Skype 3.6.0.244, and earlier 3.5.x and 3.6.x versions, on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the Local Machine Zone via the Description and unspecified other metadata fields of a Metacafe movie submitted by Metacafe Pro to the Skype video gallery, accessible through a search within the (1) "Add video to chat" or (2) "Add video to mood" dialog, a different vector than CVE-2008-0454.

Affected products

• Skype Technologies Skype: version 3.5 only; version 3.6 only; version 3.6.216 only; version 3.6.244 only

Published 2008-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.